Apple heeft een nieuw product op de markt gebracht. In navolging van de iMac is er nu de iNax. Het product is volledig in de stijl van de oude vertrouwde Apple iMac. Neem hier een kijkje. De slogan van dit nieuwe stukje hardware is : "Sit different"

The Register heeft weer leuke geruchten: volgens bronnen bij National Semiconductor hebben zich twee potentiële kopers aangemeld die Cyrix willen overnemen, één daarvan zou AMD zijn. IBM zou er vrijwel zeker niet bij zitten:

Joe D'Elia, senior semiconductor analyst at Dataquest Europe, pointed out that AMD has a lot on its plate at the moment. "They've got to maintain K6-2, the K6-III and get the K7 out, plus they're doing mobile versions. Buying Cyrix, however, would give them a proven design technology. They'd buy a name and a design team with an innovative set of products, which is what they did with NexGen."

He speculated that ST Microelectronics might also be interested, following rumours that it has fallen out with the x.86 core company Metaware it was wooing last year. "They could do with that design team," he said.

Samsung could also be a contender, D'Elia thought. "They might just realise that Alpha won't be a ten million a year product," he said.

Check dit nieuwsbericht voor meer info.

Gamer's Alliance heeft een review gepost van de digitale Creative Labs FPS2000 speakers. Met de digital DIN kabel kun je 'm in je SBLive! pluggen en dat schijnt voor DVD enzo erg goede performance te geven:

I really hate to sound too impressed by any product, but the FPS2000 is absolutey awesome for movies. I popped Blade in the DVD player, and ruinined my planned testing procedure by watching the movie the whole way through. I was just completely engrossed by it, largely because the sound was fantastic. I turned the volume up (both in software and hardware) to the point where it began to distort a little, then backed it down a notch. When my wife came in to ask me to turn it down, I had to pause the movie to understand her.

Er is weer een nieuwe versie van Motherboard Monitor. Dit superhandige proggie houdt al je onboard sensors in de gaten en heeft heel veel opties. Dit zijn de verbeteringen :

Released MBM 4.05 with the following features: Added support for: ADM 9240 (1 temperature, voltage and fan chip) ADM 1021 (2 temperatures chip), all possible 9 MAX 1617 (2 temperatures chip), all possibile 9 MAX 1617a (2 temperatures chip), all possible 9 Fixed a very very strange bug that would cause some Abit BX6 rev 2 users (3 up to now) to crash their machine. Fixed a bug users reported about the User.exe Fixed FanTemp callibration error - thanks Jonathan Teh Fixed a few small layout problems with foreign language's MBM will start up now even if no Voltage/Fan chip is found, so users with only an LM75, ADM 1021 or MAX 1617 can still start the program.

En hier kan je hem neerhalen.

Voor het geval je nog niet in slaap valt bij het horen van de combinatie Leadtek / TNT2: Game Post heeft een review gebakken van Leadtek's S320II TNT2...

iXBT heeft weer een erg goed artikel afgeleverd: een socket370 moederplank vergelijking. In totaal werden 11 borden getest, waaronder de Abit BM6, Abit ZM6 en Asus MEB. En de winnaar is de...Abit BM6!

This mainboard belongs to the company, which won the fame among numerous overclockers. It is based on an i440BX chipset full-version and has 5 PCI-slots, 2 ISA-slots and 3 DIMM-slots. So many slots provide good expandability of the system on ABIT BM6. But even taking into account their number the developers hardly faced any problems when locating them on the board due to its full-size ATX-format. The coolest distinctive feature of all ABIT mainboards including BM6 is SoftMenu II. This technology allows to change CPU configuration through BIOS Setup. Besides, SoftMenu II makes it possible to change the processor core voltage, which is of great use for CPU overclocking. Of course, the mainboard supports a wide range of FSB frequencies, including 100MHz. Moreover, we should also draw your attention to high performance rates shown by this board.

HardOCP heeft weer errug lekkere overclockers info gepost. Ze hebben een Leadtek TNT2 zwaar onderhanden genomen. De pics en info spreken voor zich.

Where did this get us and was it totally necessary to do this?  Necessary?  Hell no, but it was fun and it sure looks cool!  To use this size heatsink on the card we have sacrificed the two adjacent PCI slots.  All the cooling junk also cost about $35.  Here is the kicker.  It did allow us to bring the operating temperature down from right at 140 degrees F to close to 105 degrees F.  This allowed us to feasibly clock the the core at 170MHz.   That is over a 17% increase in core speed.  We were able to clock the memory to a stable 175MHz.  That gave us over a 14% increase in memory speed.  Pretty dang cool eh?

Check de frontpage van HardOCP.

Creative heeft een press release gepost over z'n nieuwe 32Meg UltraTNT2 videoding. En als we Creative moeten geloven is-ie de snelste van allemaal .

Hier heb je wat onzinnig geblah uit de PR:

May 10, 1999 - Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: CREAF), the renowned innovator of market-leading multimedia solutions for personal entertainment, today announced the addition of an extraordinary new 32MB graphics card to its award-winning 3D Blaster™ family of products. Creative's new 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra is the fastest graphics accelerator built to date - combining exceptional performance and outstanding image quality.

Based on NVIDIA's powerful new RIVA TNT2 processor, the 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra combines 128-bit architectures and a patented TwiN-Texel dual-pipeline 3D rendering engine to deliver unrivaled power and performance for exceptional gameplay. The 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra also supports exceedingly high resolutions and refresh rates with 32MB of high-performance Synchronous Memory and a 300 MHz DAC for pixel perfect color.

"With the introduction of the 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra, we have significantly enhanced our product line-up by providing the fastest 2D/3D graphics acceleration now available," said Steve Mosher, vice president, graphics business for Creative. "By combining NVIDIA's awesome RIVA TNT2 technology and Creative's proprietary drivers and utilities, Creative is setting the standard for an unprecedented gaming experience."

Quake 3 Center heeft een kort artikel gepost waarin de TNT2 en Voodoo3 vergeleken worden. De conclusie komt er (hoe verassend) op neer dat de TNT2 er beter uit ziet en dat de Voodoo3 sneller is.

Jeremy van AGN 3D heeft een kort interview gepost met een ventje van 3Dfx, over de V3-3500TV die vandaag werd aangekondigd:

On the press released I notice that there is MPEG 2 DVD support, but I do not notice any notice of S/PDIF out. Does this mean that the card will not be able to support Dolby AC-3 support?

What we are doing with the DVD support is SoftDVD support, offering the same level of DVD support that you can get with other Voodoo3 cards.

Het complete ding vind je hier.

PenStar Systems heeft een artikel gepost over het 30fps vs 60fps debate (of daar wel of niet verschil tussen te zien is enzo). Hier heb je de intro:

60 frames per second vs. 30 frames per second has been one of the most contested ideas around the web and in print for the last year. Today we will look to see who is right, who is wrong, and who is just plain confused.

Chipmaker (and now boardmaker) 3dfx has been evangelizing gaming at 60 fps since the Voodoo 2 was released. Many have looked down upon 3dfx for this due to the common misconception that humans cannot distinguish framerates over 30 fps, so what is the point of having visuals running at 60 fps? Misconception you say? Yes. In this article we will look behind the technology of games, computers, movies, and television and the physiology and neuro-ethology of the human visual system.

Best wel goeie info. Ze halen het complete fysieke & psychologische gebeuren van het menselijk oog erbij en komen dan tot de conclusie dat een framerate van 72fps vereist is voor realistische beleving van beweging. Ga zelf maar kijken.

Review Zone heeft een preview van Tiberian Sun in elkaar gedraaid. De 3D engine van Tiberian Sun maakt gebruik van voxels (3 dimensionale pixels met hoogte, breedte én diepte). Dat geeft best wel een tof resultaat, alleen kan er niet gebruik gemaakt worden van hardware acceleratie omdat 3D kaarten alleen in polygonen denken, met als gevolg dat alle load bij je CPU komt te liggen. Naast voxels doet de engine ook allerlei leuke lichteffecten:

Voxel processing is by no means all there is to the graphics on Tiberian Sun. The game will also feature dynamic lighting, colored lighting and a maximum resolution of 800x600 (very welcome after the 640x480 barrier on the earlier C&C titles).

The lighting effects on the night-time missions- including the eerie glow of the tiberium- are a pleasure to behold.

The night-time missions are cool in the first place, anyway, since visibility is halved and you need to use searchlights- another fascinating bit of eye-candy.

Review Zone heeft het nog steeds over een verwachte release in juni van dit jaar. We zullen zien...

Beyond3D heeft een artikeltje gebakken over het voortdurende gediscussieer over de verschillen in beeldkwaliteit tussen V3 (16/22-bit) en de 32-bit kaarten. Is een betrouwbare vergelijking uberhaupt mogelijk?

Even with all these precautions there is still one huge difference between seeing the real output and using a screenshot. The real output from a 3D accelerator is moving; it's not static when you play. Motion has a huge impact on the visual perception of an image that a single static screenshot can never convey. Some artifacts are only noticeable in moving images. One example of such an artifact is the problem with moiré patterns and aliasing. Basically both effects create moving artifacts and they are not so noticeable in single static shots. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to solve this problem. The storage space available to most online sites is limited and the download bandwidth is in short supply. For this reason the only true way to judge image quality acceptability is to look at the real thing. If that's impossible you will have to go for the screenshot technique described earlier.

3Dfx heeft de naam van de V3 - 3500 verandert in V3- 3000TV. Yep, er zit nu standaard een video-in en video-out op het ding. Dat allemaal voor dezelfde prijs. Wel hebben ze de digitale flatpanel poort eruit gesloopt (wie cared daar nou om?).

Hier heb je de PR:

3dfx Interactive® Inc. (NASDAQ: TDFX) today debuted the ultimate system for PC-based entertainment: the Voodoo3 3500 TV. Based on the acclaimed Voodoo3 graphics accelerator technology, the Voodoo3 3500 TV combines the industry's most powerful 3D and 2D graphics with complete TV tuner and multimedia functionality in a single AGP or PCI board. Featuring support for MPEG 2, DVD, FM stereo with dbx, and high-resolution displays, the new board includes the most feature-filled entertainment card for hard-core game enthusiasts and cutting-edge multimedia entertainment consumers.

Equipped with the finest quality TV video and FM stereo available on a PC, the 183 MHz Voodoo3 3500 TV supports real-time MPEG 2 video and audio capture, and includes such advanced VCR features as timed recording and frame advance - all accessible through an intuitive software interface. With Voodoo3 3500 TV, 3dfx users can surf channels, zoom in on their TV picture, and record their favorite television programs and play them back in DVD quality.

"More consumers than ever are outfitting their PCs with both high-performance graphics cards and TV multimedia components," said Greg Ballard, president and CEO of 3dfx Interactive. "By coupling the highly integrated Voodoo3 architecture with award-winning video and MPEG 2 technology, we have been able to surprise the market with a Voodoo3 3500 card that delivers all the multimedia features consumers want with the ultimate in 3D graphics performance. Voodoo3 3500 TV establishes an entirely new product category for PCs, delivering to consumers the industry's fastest and most comprehensive desktop entertainment system."

Manufactured for 3dfx by STB Systems, Inc., Voodoo3 3500 TV enables consumers to enjoy the best in PC-based entertainment; combining more than 300 hot game titles optimized for 3dfx technology, and a rapidly growing array of television programming - all accessible through a single card. Because two separate boards would require both AGP and PCI expansion slots, Voodoo3 3500 TV allows consumers to save their unused slot for another peripheral.

Eric van Fastgraphics heeft een preview van de G400 op z'n site geparkeerd. Hij heeft erg goede info over Enviroment Mapped Bump Mapping

Environment Mapped Bump Mapping is a DirectX 6 quality feature which will be used to substantially increase the visual realism of 3D scenes. In fact, 3D graphics hardware that supports this feature will be able to render 3D scenes with more realism than was ever before possible on the PC. Environment Mapped Bump Mapping is essentially a technique that allows a much higher level of detail to be added to a 3D world than could be possible with texture- mapped polygons alone. Fine details such as the pockmarked surface of bricks in a dungeon and scratches on robots and tanks can be added with ease. Special effects such as realistic water surfaces, heat shimmering off hot asphalt on a summer day and air turbulence in flight simulators can also be uniquely accomplished by using Environment Mapped Bump Mapping. This new feature will prove to be as revolutionary as alpha blending in terms of the creative effects that game developers will accomplish when given free rein. With the advent of the Matrox G400 as the first chip to support Environment Mapped Bump Mapping in hardware, game developers are quickly pledging to add support for this feature into cutting-edge games that will ship in 1999 (see below). Environment Mapped Bump Mapping can be used in various ways to add compelling effects to a 3D scene.

Ik zou absoluut even gaan kijken naar de screenshots en info in het artikel van Eric.

Matrox heeft een vandaag z'n nieuwe G400 en G400MAX videokaarten aangekondigd. Hier heb je wat spul uit de press release:

Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced the first 2D, 3D, video, TV-Out and dual display graphics boards based on the Matrox G400 Chip Series: the high speed Matrox Millennium G400 for the most demanding business and home users; and the industry's benchmark leader, the Matrox Millennium G400 MAX, for power gamers and professionals requiring maximum resolutions for high-end displays.

"The Millennium G400 and Millennium G400 MAX offer the highest levels of speed in the industry combined with a dramatically different feature set," said Dan Wood, Senior Product Manager, Matrox Graphics Inc. "Add a second display to your PC with Matrox's unique DualHead Display. Enhance the visual realism of 3D gaming with built-in hardware support for DirectX 6 Environment Mapped Bump Mapping. Enjoy the richest, most photorealistic colors with Matrox's Vibrant Color Quality2 rendering-all on a single Matrox Millennium card." [break]Blablabla. Ik skip ff het stuk over de G400 retail. Hier de G400MAX:[/break] The Matrox Millennium G400 MAX is also supercharged with the same three unique, must-have features that distinguish it from all other graphics solutions: Matrox's DualHead Display, built-in support for Environment Mapped Bump Mapping and Matrox's trademark Vibrant Color Quality2 rendering. It is also equipped with a 3D rendering engine that achieves amazingly fast single pass multi-texturing with 32-bit rendering, 32-bit textures, 32-bit Z-buffer with 8-bit stencil, full AGP texturing and anisotropic filtering. Fitted with a fixed 32MB of high-bandwidth SGRAM, the Matrox Millennium G400 MAX provides lightning fast, ultra-crisp displays with a 360MHz UltraSharp RAMDAC capable of driving high-end monitors at resolutions up to 2048 x 1536, 32-bpp at 85Hz.

Targeted directly at the accept-no-compromise PC gamer and at professionals who require an exceptionally large desktop display, the Matrox

Millennium G400 MAX gears performance into overdrive with an increase in raw speed of more than 30 per cent over the Matrox Millennium G400. In addition, the Matrox Millennium G400 MAX nearly maxes out Ziff Davis' 3D WinBench 99, scoring 1080 at 1024 x 768 resolution at 16-bpp.

Available to end-users in mid-June 1999, the Matrox Millennium G400 MAX will sell for $249 ESP.

Meer info (DualHead Display, hardware bumpmapping enz.) vind je in de press release.

Billy is terug van z'n trip naar Epic, waar hij Unreal Tournament heeft mogen testen. Hij heeft meteen een paar screenshots meegenomen.

Hier heb je de info:

The first shot is pretty self-explanatory, the second and third shots shows my character, after picking up an invisibility -- if you look closely towards the bottom of the screen, you can kind of make out my weapons. The invisible effect in UT looks extremely cool (think of the movie "Predator" and you're pretty much there). I'm going to do what I can to get my p/review of Unreal Tournament up prior to E3. It all depends on how much my p1mp works me.

These shots were taking on a Pentium2 400MHz with (I think) 128Mb of RAM, and a Voodoo3 3000. I ran smoother than a cheerleaders thigh! Seriously, it ran VERY smoothly (and I mean VERY). I looked over the shoulder on somebody playing it on a P2 300 (not sure how much RAM, and I believe just a Dual V2), and it ran just about as smooth. VERY playable. I can't believe it, but the system requirements almost seem to have dropped (don't quote me on that, just an observation). Incredible stuff Epic!

Klinkt goed (maar hoe doet-ie het met een TNT?). De pics vind je hier.

Tomshardware.com is zo goed als dood, maar het duitse deel van THG blijkt wél interessant nieuws te hebben . Check dit stuk over een neue ganz vette Übertakt plank van Soyo, met een extreem brede range aan frontside busspeeds:

Soyo hat ein neues Board angekündigt, daß die Herzen der Übertakter höher schlagen läßt. Die Feature-Liste liest sich wie der der Wunschzettel zu Weihnachten, Geburtstag und Ostern zusammen. Da wir das Board noch nicht getstet haben, hier nur die Liste aus der offiziellen Verlautbarung:

Leistungsmerkmale:
1. FSB von 66 bis 155 MHz in mehreren Schritten einstellbar (66 / 75 / 81 / 83 / 90 / 95 / 100 / 105 / 110 / 112 / 113 / 115 / 117 / 118 / 120 / 122 / 124 / 126 / 133 / 135 / 137 / 138 / 140 / 142 / 144 / 150 / 155)
2. Multiplier von 2 bis 8 einstellbar; sorgt für maximale Frequenz von 1,2 GHz.
3. Verhältnis PCI Bustakt zu FSB einstellbar, damit die Geschwindigkeit auf dem PCI Bus zwischen 33 und 41 MHz bleibt.
4. Exakte Spannungsermittlung vom BIOS mit der Möglichkeit einer Erhöhung um 2.5%, 5%, 7,5% oder 10%
5. Alle Einstellungen im BIOS mit Hardware Monitoring zur Überwachung.
6. Spannungserzeugung vom Speicher auf dem Board integriert, um höhere Stabilität und Performance zu sichern.
7. Power Failure Resume Function, um Neustart nach Stromausfall sicherzustellen.
8. Roll Over Y2K, um auch beim Übergang ins Jahr 2000 keine Probleme zu haben (getestet mit NSTL, Toolhouse, ..)
9. 5VSB Indicator, um 100% Shutdown zu erkennen. Information erfolgt über grüne LED, die so lange leuchtet bis das System nicht komplett aus ist.
10. Wie bei professionellen Server-Produkten mit IDE/FDD Kabel, das einrastet um eine hohe Kontaktsicherheit zu bieten

ACHTUNG: Dies ist lediglich die offizielle Verlautbarung von Soyo und kein Test, der von uns durchgeführt wurde. Wir werden aber auf dem schnellsten Wege ein Muster besorgen und entsprechende Prüfungen ausführen!

Toll, super toll! Wat wil je nog meer? (euh...volledig variabele busspeeds?)

Je hebt het rare aparaat vast al wel ergens gezien en jezelf afgevraagd of je met dat ding wel een beetje fatsoenlijk kunt Quaken.
Dat hebben ze bij IGamers.net ff uitgeprobeert.

Once you get your hands on it, and place your fingers on the appropriate triggers, you begin to see it. Its like a 7000 watt bulb going off inside your eyeball when your first start playing an actual game. The feel can only be described as Natural. The opposing forces of left and right make it much easier to get precision shots, and the layout of the buttons make thumb movements for strafing so easy, you forget your doing it after a few games.

Hmm, schijnbaar toch een prettige pretstok. . .

Meer info

Anand is terug met een vette slot1 BX Board roundup...En de beste overclockers plank is:

Could this award go to any other company? The BX6 Revision 2 is the absolute best motherboard for overclockers. Supporting a wide variety of FSB frequencies and sporting the ability to adjust the CPU core voltage of any installed processor, the BX6 Rev2 is the hands-down winner in this category.

Uiteraard

Check Anand's artikel voor de volle info.

Ok zag op THG Technews dat Huyndai is begonnen met de massa produktie van PC133 SDRAMs, waarvan het de bedoeling is dat ze gebruikt gaan worden in o.a. de Intel Coppermine systemen Wij vinden ze vooral handig bij het overklokken

Hyundai Electronics America has started mass production of phase-locked-loop clock drivers and Advanced Low-Voltage CMOS memory registers for PC-133/100 registered Dual In-line Memory Modules. These products enable high performance PC or server systems to move data between the microprocessor and its memory modules at faster speeds than is currently possible today, according to the company. Hyundai expects that the improvement in speed will be significant, ultimately increasing the capability of PCs and servers. Hyundai's web site can be found at www.hea.com.

Alex van Sharky Extreme heeft een Mortyr preview geschreven. Hier heb je een stuk info over deze Wolfenstein kloon:

Unlike Wolfenstein 3D, Mortyr has its own proprietary 3D engine feature which is able to churn out real-time ambient lighting, shading, reflective surfaces and transparent effects such as mist and fog. Intel's RSX Sound will be used for 3D sound implementation. How times have changed- and for the better. Mortyr will boast over 20 single player missions and 12 weapons, including the Luger and the MG42. Multiplayer options will also be made available via CTF and Deathmatch modes of play. Interactive Magic will be publishing the game worldwide in Q2. Stay tuned.

JC heeft wat spul gepost over de recente ontwikkeling bij Cyrix. Check www.jc-news.com/pc/ :

I probably should try to clear up some of the confusion relating to NSM's major wimpout this past week. Basically, what's happening is that NSM decided to sell Cyrix, packaged with their Portland Fab (which had been making Cyrix's chips). A sale hasn't been made, though there are, it seems, a few hopefuls. Most people seem to think that IBM is the biggest prospect -- they kinda should be in the x86 market, it seems to suit them. I heard one fellow pushing for Samsung, I guess that's a possibility. Anyway, just to get some stuff straight: Cyrix is still working (even though certain key people to NSM have been pulled, that's only natural in this circumstance), there's even a reasonable chance of continued ramping. If there is a sale, they'll still exist. There may be a hit, time-wise, to their production schedule, but it likely wouldn't be severe since their main x86 fab is being sold with them. That's all I have to say about that.

Jeremy van AGN Hardware heeft z'n review van de Abit BX6-II (uit januari) geupdate met zijn ervaringen met de nieuwe 2.02 revisie. Met de eerste revisie waren nogal wat problemen (vooral Amerikanen!?). Met Rev2.02 lijkt alles weer ok te zijn:

When you put as much faith in a product line as consumers have given Abit's B-6 models of main boards, you want answers when the products fail to meet the needs of the users. Abit's original BX6 and the LX6 before it were fantastic performers, so what had gone wrong with the BX6 2.0? Even before we had a chance to ask Abit, they had an answer. I have spent the last few weeks torturing the Abit BX6 2.2 (also known as the 2.02) to see if Abit's answer was a sufficient one. After all, Abit had quite a bit running on the BX6 2.0's success, and and when it failed to deliver as promised people began to take notice, including myself. We weren't so much interested in benchmarked speed as we were in stability and fixed problems. What we found in the process was a renewed faith in Abit boards. Without going into the gory details (this is just an update after all), no matter whet we threw at the 2.0 it still booted and ran without error. We tried 20+ combinations of PCI cards and our only real finding was that the SB Live! PCI sound card preferred to be in either slot 2, 3, or 4 on the PCI bus. Aside from that snag we had no problems with random reboots. Pioneer DVD players also seemed to work well and were detected as normal, the CPU temperature sensor worked as expected, as was never more than a few degrees different than an adjacent sensor monitored by the SuperCooler.

Ik heb sinds twee week ook in BX6-II Rev2.02 (daarvoor BX6) en ik ben erg blij mee. Installatie was wel wazig. Eerst wilde het ding niet booten, bleek te komen omdat een ISA kaart de plank net iets te voor door liet beugen (bij de meeste printplaten niet zo'n probleem). Toen het ding eenmaal werkte kon ik niet meer stabiel op 464 draaien. Een BIOS update naar het laatste beta update loste _alle_ problemen op!

Voor de verandering maar eens een review van een muis/keyboard combo. Niet zomaar een muis en toetsenbord, maar muis & tikplank die van z'n staart ontdaan is. Uiteraard lijkt dat errug relaxed, maar het geeft ook troubles:

I brought the receiver onto my desk, about one foot from the devices, and things worked just fine. However alot of people have unshielded sattelites as well as subwoofers... And the interference that this results in may be unacceptable. But if you try, you should be able to find a spot where there is no interference, as I did.

Another problem, which would seem unlikely considering the devices in question, is bandwidth. Yes it's true. The receiver can only seem to process about 5 keys + mouse movement + 1 mouse click at a time. While this problem rarely shows up in a game of say, HalfLife or StarCraft, games such as Expendable where two players can play on the same keyboard results in a horrid mess of spinning in circles firing your guns and keys locking up. Any two-players-on-one-keyboard type game should be avoided at all costs on this set.

System Logic heeft een review van de Asus P2B-LS moederplank met onboard LAN en SCSI in elkaar gezet. Volgens System Logic is-ie ook voor overklokken goed geschikt:

Since the P2B-LS uses the BX chipset, it contains an AGP and supports any bus speed from 50MHZ to 133MHZ. It also has CPU multipliers up to 6x which should keep up with all of Intel's future Slot 1 processors. But who knows, as newer processors are released, this may be different. This motherboard seems to be a very good one to use for overclocking, with it's 6x clock multiplier, and it's ability to run stable at 133 Mhz with the right CAS 2 latency SDRAM. This board contains 4-DIMM slots which allows you to have up to 1024 Megabytes of RAM. That is probably more than you will ever need, but who knows a few years from now.

Maar dan vind ik dat de BX6-II toch meer features heeft (voor oc-en enzo, helaas zijn er geen Abit borde met onboard SCSI).